Since JBoss can detect application deadlock, you should write your application so that it can retry a transaction if the invocation fails because of the ApplicationDeadlockException. Unfortunately, this exception can be deeply embedded within a RemoteException, so you have to search for it in your catch block. For example:

try {
					// ...
					} catch (RemoteException ex) {
					Throwable cause = null;
					RemoteException rex = ex;
					while (rex.detail != null) {
					cause = rex.detail;
					if (cause instanceof ApplicationDeadlockException) {
					// ... We have deadlock, force a retry of the transaction.
					break;
					}
					if (cause instanceof RemoteException) {
					rex = (RemoteException)cause;
					}
					}
					}